Renewable Energy World

JULY 16, 2021

Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Department of Energy’s (DOE) goal to reduce the cost of grid-scale, long-duration energy storage (of which pumped storage hydro is the largest source) by 90% within the decade. Energy storage technology holds great promise in the fight against climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Duke's new IRP presents six very different pathways toward greening its energy mix over the next 15 years, all of them reaching at least 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Despite its clear value to the grid and to the increased integration of renewables, the 1,872-megawatt facility took four years to build and is unlikely to be replicated. Instead, the greatest expansion in energy storage over the last decade has been in batteries. Realizing energy storage's full potential.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Vistra has announced that its DeCordova battery energy storage system (BESS) in Granbury, Texas, is online and storing and releasing electricity to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. Aerial – battery containers. Courtesy of Vistra. Project construction began in June 2021 and was finished in less than a year.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Rolls-Royce has announced that six of eight mtu EnergyPacks have been delivered to German energy solutions company VISPIRON, which makes use of a virtual power plant in combination with an auto trading system to provide grid stability. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Energy storage is a rapidly growing segment of the clean energy sector, and prices are dropping fast. Yet many are still struggling to understand how to value energy storage as an investment. Storage solutions are now a growing part of this energy transition, and will represent a $150 billion industry in the U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Successful test in Oxfordshire hailed as a major milestone in UK's quest to produce clean energy from nuclear fusion by 2040, government said. It heralded the achievement as major milestone in the UK's plans to develop a nuclear fusion power plant that can provide a new source of clean energy to the power grid within the next 20 years. "We

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

The first phase of planning work is underway on a $75 million research and development center focused on accelerating development and deployment of long-duration, low-cost energy storage. The GSL will speed up the process considerably by doing the work needed to develop and deploy new grid storage technologies.”. 26-28 in Dallas.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

What’s driving the deployment of utility-scale energy storage assets? We will focus on the opportunities for “utility-scale” or “grid-scale” energy storage in this blog. Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2021

Minerals such as lithium and copper are critical for EVs and renewables, but a lack of investment and policy clarity risks undermining the burgeoning market. The expansion of electricity networks to support the shift towards EVs and heat pumps, as well as enhance energy access, also requires a huge increase in copper and cobalt supplies.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 8, 2023

As we find ourselves rapidly entering the clean energy transition, and as the superpower economies of the United States and the European Union pivot hard toward a net-zero 2050, an opportunity to transition our own natural resource sectors has emerged. Demand for high-quality iron ore is subsequently expected to grow significantly.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

New BloombergNEF analysis charts the rising cost pressures faced by the global stationary energy storage market. That is the core conclusion of recent analysis from BloombergNEF, which estimates the average price of a four-hour turnkey energy storage system rose to $324/kWh in 2022 - a 27 per cent increase from the previous year.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It is not just a theoretical question for the future, says Risto Paldanius, director of business development for Wärtsilä’s Energy Storage and Optimization, business unit, and a long-time attendee of the conference. The desire to transition to more renewables also had to be balanced with grid stability.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

AutoGrid Announces $85 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Energy Transition. During Summer of 2021, AutoGrid VPPs were dispatched 1,800 times, delivering over 5,000 MW of capacity and 37,000 MWh of energy when the electricity grid was most stressed. Amit Narayan. Founder & CEO at AutoGrid. Has it been 10 years already!

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at a successful Series B financing round of $20 million for a US-based platform, Amperon, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to unlock value from grid data and enhance electricity forecasting.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Last week’s article focused on the nine key elements of Joe Biden’s plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice. power sector by 2035. This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector. power grid by 2050.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally. ” Storage is not enough.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Between video calls, collaboration applications and streaming services, data centers are working overdrive - proving why energy efficiency matters more than ever. Less detailed analyses have predicted rapid growth in data center energy use, but without fully considering the historical efficiency progress made by the industry.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Heatwaves are a double whammy for the electrical grid. The combination of the hot weather and the increased energy running along wires go beyond what they were built to endure. Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. America’s energy infrastructure scored a C-minus on the U.S.

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

a geothermal baseload and energy storage company based in Houston, has released results and data from its full-scale commercial pilot confirming the performance of its energy storage system that can provide short- or long-duration storage (EarthStore). Sage Geosystems Inc. ,

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Yet, as Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) warns in its latest must-read outlook for the global EV market, the journey towards zero carbon road transport the world over remains very long indeed, with many twist and turns ahead. As BNEF's report makes clear, active travel and public transit are critical pieces of the puzzle.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

(Sage), a geothermal baseload and energy storage company, has announced the results and data from their full-scale commercial pilot of EarthStore – the company’s energy storage system that can provide short- or long-duration storage. Sage will present their energy storage pilot results tomorrow at the PIVOT 2023 conference.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of solar energy, which could save the abundance of solar energy generated in sunny months to be used for heat and electricity in the winter. Capturing heat to heat houses.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

utilities such as Duke Energy , Dominion Energy , Southern Company and Xcel Energy. Each still plans to build new natural gas power plants in the near term, despite the additional emissions they will cause. electric grid relies on fossil fuels for 63 percent of its generation, and according to the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Project ViSynC combines the two forms of energy storage systems and will be connected to the Spanish transmission grid to enable ‘synchronous grid-forming’ services. Management of the hybrid storage system will be carried out through a specific control system that allows it to operate in synchronous grid-forming mode.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

residential energy storage market. The Germany-based company, acquired by oil major Shell in 2019, designed its sonnenCore system to deliver daily cycling for grid services as well as backup power. customers eager to keep the lights on when the power grid fails. residential storage market is bigger than ever.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

Given the totemic green grid target is just 13 years away, and the decarbonisation of the grid represents the backbone of the UK's entire 2050 net zero project, it is hard to underestimate this particular mission. Moreover, for climate and energy security reasons, a net zero power grid is essentially non-negotiable.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Biden administration’s goal is to have a carbon emissions-free grid by 2035. will need to nearly triple its 2020 growth rate for the grid to be 80% powered by clean energy by 2030. (As The foundation of this transition is a dramatic change in the electric grid itself. One recent study found that the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

to meet the study’s assumptions of doubling its transmission network capacity and creating new interregional and cross-country links to shift clean energy from where it’s most efficiently generated to where it’s needed remains an open question. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Out in Utah, a coal-fired power plant supplying electricity to Los Angeles is being outfitted with natural-gas-fired turbines that will eventually be able to run on hydrogen, created via electrolysis with wind and solar power and stored in massive underground caverns for use when that clean energy isn’t available for the grid.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The union is demanding a 40% pay increase over four years, but so far automakers are willing to offer less than half of that. Battery plant speed bumps As the broader energy transition can attest, it's not a simple matter of retraining workers. Energy Ventures, and Swisscom Ventures. and Stellantis joined the strike.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Note: There is a lot happening in the world.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2020

A dozen of Wrightbus' hydrogen buses have operated around London for years and Bamford saw an opportunity to complement his hydrogen production and refuelling business, which won a major contract to supply fuel to Transport for London in 2019, with a firm whose product offering could stimulate demand for the green fuel. He may be in luck.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2022

President Joe Biden yesterday responded to rising fossil fuel costs and the continued Congressional deadlock that is blocking White House efforts to pass climate legislation by approving a package of emergency measures designed to accelerate US clean energy technology manufacturing.

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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

When Edward Bartell first learned that a lithium mine might be moving into his remote corner of northern Nevada, the longtime cattle rancher wasn’t upset. “I He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 21, 2021

But widespread EV adoption in the United States faces three critical challenges: a limited battery supply chain, inadequate charging infrastructure, and already strained power grids. Battery Supply Chain: Most electric vehicles run on lithium batteries.

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